Here's something wild: that famous cryptographic sculpture sitting outside a major intelligence agency's headquarters? Yeah, the one that's been messing with codebreakers for over three decades. Its final section is still a complete mystery.

Now the artist behind it is doing something unprecedented—putting the actual solution up for auction. We're talking about Kryptos, that copper scroll with its four encrypted passages. Three got cracked over the years, but that last 97-character sequence? Nobody's touched it.

The creator's decided to let someone own the answer. Not just know it—actually own the rights to the solution. Pretty meta when you think about it. A physical piece of art meets digital-age scarcity, except this time the secret's getting tokenized through a traditional auction house.

Wonder if whoever wins will even reveal it, or just hold onto that knowledge like some kind of ultimate flex in cryptography circles.